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Um, we, we would this morning continue from where we started in the last week as the Lord chose gives us insight on the major reasons for divine compensation. Please open with me to Galatians chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6.
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Verse 9 to 10. You can see from this scripture that the Spirit of God is making it clear that there would always be an appointed time that is set by God. There will always be a time that God considers the right time. This timing is also called, do you refer to as due season. And whenever your due season comes, there will always be certain things to be done for you or giving to you. So the time will come when we will reap the harvest in due time, and at the appointed season, we shall reap. And then from the Contemporary English Version, it says, "You will be rewarded when the time is right."
Compensation, like we explained in the first teaching, is something that is done or given to make up for damage, to make up for trouble. Compensation is giving, the act of giving someone something, and typically, most in many instances, it could be money in recognition of loss, suffering, damage, or injury incurred.
In Genesis chapter 15, verse 14, Genesis 15, verse 14, an amplified Bible, it says, "But on that nation whom your descendants will serve, I will bring judgment, and afterward, they will come out of that land with great possession."
So, starting from the first part of this teaching, we made it clear that there is a pattern with God. When God deliberately permits evil, struggle, damage, and all kinds of severe afflictions or major setbacks, devastating losses to happen to innocent people or the righteous, God's own people who are obviously in fellowship with Him, who are obviously praying and praying against things like that, yet God decides to ignore their prayers and permit what they have prayed against to still happen. At the same time that God is permitting that trial of the righteous or the innocent to happen, about that same time, God already programs an act of divine compensation to also happen for such persons. When God permits trials and also confirms that those trials must happen, you can be rest assured that the divine compensation that is now programmed with that irreversible trial, the compensation itself will also become irreversible. So, if you have been exposed to an unstoppable trial, I can console and reassure you and encourage you this morning to let you know something about God's pattern that you are also, you are already a candidate of divine compensation because God who allowed you to go through that trial that He made unstoppable, that was why prayer could not stop it, prayer could not prevent it, despite all your precautionary measures, it still happened. Now, the same God, when programming your compensation to follow that trial, will make that compensation also irreversible.
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God told them, He said, "You are coming out of Egypt with great wealth." Go and check, go and check the book of Exodus. When it eventually happened, the people did not have to pray and fast and and battle in the place of prayer for that, for this, for that aspect of the promise to be fulfilled. Nobody prayed for the people to find themselves in captivity in Egypt. Circumstances took them there. God knew that it's going to start with Joseph being sold, you know, to Egyptians, and he will end up there in Egypt. And, you know, he knew that was going to be the pattern. He didn't stop it because He permitted it to happen. He also had ordained that when that season is over, they will come out. And as they are coming out, He told Abraham ahead of time that they are coming out with great wealth. It was specific about them, the quality of the compensation. Now, when that time came, it was God that took responsibility to make it happen. It was God that told Moses, "Tell the people to ask of their Egyptian masters." Take note, I've analyzed this many times. It's not impossible for that to happen naturally because the Bible tells us that the Israelites asked the Egyptian masters, and all of them, not the generous ones, not the kind-hearted Egyptians, all Egyptians, that means including the tight-fisted, including the stingy and tight-fisted. It's not ordinary hand. It was a spiritual influence that compelled them to do exactly what the Israelites had asked for, and they actually gave them everything. Everything, because the Bible says, "And they stripped the Egyptians of all their wealth." So, it was God that was behind everything.
When the same thing He did for Job. When Job's trial was over, Job's trial was over. You, you can't, you won't read anywhere in the book of Job that he started praying, he started fasting, he started crying out to God, he started sowing sacrificial seeds, you know, and doing taking steps of faith in order for God to restore him again. No, nothing like that happened. Nothing like that happened. And, you know, let's also put in a correction. You read where the Bible says, "And after you prayed for his friends, you know, the Lord restored him." Now, that his prayer for his friends was not the reason why God restored him. It was just sequential. It was not the reason why God now restored. You praying for his friends was just an event. It had nothing to do with the restoration of Job. The restoration of Job was bound to happen, and it was God that made it happen. And that is why God deliberately doubled everything, gave him twice as much as he had before to show you that it was really God in action. Even the daughters, He gave him. The Bible says, "And there were no beautiful women in the whole world as beautiful as the daughters of Job." Not the ones that died through the trial, the ones that came in the package of divine compensation. Praise hear the Lord. It was God that was, God is the one that is responsible. Listen to me, someone here this season, you will see God in action. You will see God in action. What you were denied of, God Himself is going to give you something better, something better, something better.
The good seeds you have sown, and often now people are wondering, is there really harvest? Is there really good returns for people who, who do such good things consistently? Because people are looking at your life and they have not seen up to now evidence of appropriate reward. There are some scriptures in your life that you have fulfilled, and the promise of God that comes with those scriptures are yet to be fulfilled, and yet to be fulfilled. So, in a season like this, and that is why I said, don't give up. Don't stop it. Don't give up, for in due season you shall reap if you faint not. Don't stop doing the good you have been doing, if only you can keep up your good deeds still the breakthrough point, because there's a breakthrough point ahead of you. And for someone listening to me, it is this new season.
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Take note, in our work with God, in 24 years, we've never had divine compensation as a, as a team for the year. This is the first time. This is the first time. So, what is coming is far better than what is gone, in the name of Jesus. So, in most cases of divine compensation, the beneficiaries did not have to battle, battle for it. They did not have to battle for it. It could be done as an act of restoration. It could also be done as an act of reward. So, take note of this other part. Dimension of compensation is not always about people who have lost something. Compensation is also, it comes as an act of reward for your good seeds, your consistency, your faithfulness, your loyalty, your kingdom commitment, your kingdom service, the good that you do to people, including people outside the church. In the season of compensation, divine compensation, God will reward certain people who have been consistent or who have done something very outstanding in such areas. So, there are some conditions for divine compensation.
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One, we've already mentioned, is unconditional obedience. Genesis 22:15-18. Many times, you will please people, and people will be happy with you, people will praise you.
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And while doing that, you are disobeying God. There will be many times where, in your attempt to make people happy with you and satisfied with you, you will do something that makes you disloyal to God. You may be moving on with the people, but God is becoming grieved as a result of your actions. But God is looking for men and women who will not only obey Him, but obey Him unconditionally, unconditionally.
Number two is faithfulness and loyalty. Faithfulness and loyalty. In Psalm 18:25-26, Contemporary English Version, it says, "You are always loyal to your loyal people, and you are faithful to the faithful. With all who are sincere, you are sincere. But you treat the unfaithful as their deeds desire." Those who are faithful in different dimensions of God's word, God's instruction generally and privately to them at a time, God will show Himself.
And number three is kingdom commitment and service. Kingdom commitment and service. You see how Hannah, the wife of Elkanah, in First Samuel chapter 1, on her own volition, made a vow to God that if God will bless her with His son, she had no child at that time, that she would dedicate and hand over this child back to God to serve God all His life.
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And when the time came, she honored her vow.
And number four, another major reason why God steps in to compensate people is as a result of injustice and unfair treatment. Injustice and unfair treatment. Injustice and unfair treatment. In Genesis 15:13-14, New Living Translation, it said, "The Lord said to Hebrew, Abraham, you can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land where they will be oppressed. When your season of compensation comes, however, don't have an open mind because God does not have to give you exactly what you were denied of. God can give you something new from a different environment completely and in a different order completely."